Laurent Eschenauer
Software Engineer Tech Lead Agile Coach Leadership Coach at Wonderpod
Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Top SchoolLaurent Eschenauer is a senior software engineer and tech leader with 16 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and scaling platforms to millions of users. He blends hands-on architecture and backend expertise (Java, Python, Kubernetes, AWS) with leadership and agile coaching, mentoring founders and CTOs using ICF coaching methods. As former Director of Engineering at Argent he led 25 engineers on a high-throughput Starknet wallet, and today runs Transcode and Wonderpod, applying agentic genAI workflows to product automation and podcasting. His work spans AI/ML, Web3, DevOps and data engineering, with practical open-source experience improving projects like node-ar-drone’s video pipeline. Known for pairing technical due diligence and scalable architecture with people-first culture change, he helps teams move from MVP to reliable, secure production. Based in Liège, he combines entrepreneurship (multiple startups) with a research-driven background (MS in Electrical Engineering).
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Electrical engineering, Master Electrical engineering at University of LiègeMaster of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
video-processing10
nodejs10
api-design9
ffmpeg9
automations8
mission-control8
automation8
controls8
remote-control8
jenkins6
dockerhub6
maven6
multimodule6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
felixge/node-ar-drone
May 2013 - Aug 2013
A node.js client for controlling Parrot AR Drone 2.0 quad-copters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Laurent primarily focused on improving the stability and reliability of the `node-ar-drone` project. Their contributions included fixing unhandled errors related to the `ffmpeg` process and addressing issues in the video processing pipeline. They also introduced new API calls for managing video streams, optimizing the client's internal structure, and adding an example of saving the video stream. Furthermore, the user skipped a broken test and wrote tests to confirm new functionality.
js-clientnode-jscontrollingparrot-ar-dronenodejs
eschnou/arduino-px4flow-i2c
Jul 2014 - May 2018
Arduino library wrapping the Wire I2C calls to a PX4Flow Optical Flow Tracker.
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
trackercallsi2coptical-flowarduino-library
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